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Poetry For Children

Funny Poems for Kids
A collection of short funny poems for children by Patrick Winstanley, Ruddington resident and comic poet. Some of the poems have been showcased on Ruddington.org, but there are many previously unseen poems as well

Andrea Shavick
Children's poems about school, space, people, history, pocket money and much more. The gruesome/bloodthirsty/yucky section is particularly good and 'Grandma Was Eaten by a Shark' unmissable.

Potty Poems
Features funny poems by Gez Walsh, Chris White, Andrew Collett, Celia Warren and others. A definite bias towards schoolboy/lavatory humour, but what's wrong with that?

Giggle Poetry
The home of Bruce Lanski and any number of guest poets. You get a chance to rate the poems, enter competitions and learn how to write limericks and nursery rhymes.

Ken Nesbitt
Funny Poetry, a fan club and a potentially very useful series of 10 lessons on how to write funny poems, which unfortunately stops after lesson 4. Expect to write lots of half-funny, half-finished poems until he completes the series.

Linda Knaus
Really very funny poems, including a quite a few about school, but the biography page is rather gooey and might make you sick and she has the least memorable URL in the universe.

Poetry For Adults

Funny Poems for Adults
Peculiar Poetry is a collection of short funny poems for adults by Patrick Winstanley, whose poetry has been described as darkly humorous, wry, inscrutable... even odd. Many of the peoms have feaured previously on Ruddington.org and are now archived on this personal site.

John Hegley
John Hegley is widely known as one of the UK's most innovative comic poets, with seven best-selling volumes of poetry to his name and regular appearances on Radio 4. Favoured themes for his work are dogs and glasses wearers.

J C Lamb
A website containing comic verse and other mainly humorous items designed essentially for reading aloud. Some of the pieces have been appearing weekly in the Economist group newspaper 'European Voice'.

Adam Taylor
A deadpan comic poet whose targets range from the mafia to middle class England, to the psychology of wildebeests. Very Jewish and very funny.